Engine



H. RUTTINGER.

ENGINE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT-15. x919.

1,349,856. at ntedAug. 17,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY RUTTINGER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

ENGINE.

Application filed October 15, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY fto'r'rinenn, a subject of the Government of Austria- Hungary, and resident of Bufialo, Erie county, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Engines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in engines and particularly in fluid operated engines.

One object of this invention is to provide an engine having a small number of moving parts.

Another object of this invention is to provide in the crankshaft of an engine a passageway therethrough.

A further object of this invention is to dispense with the valve opening and closing elements customarily employed in engines of this character.

Other objects of this invention will be disclosed by an examination of the specification and the drawings which form a part thereof and in which;

Figure 1 shows a longitudinal section of one form of engine embodying this invention; and

Fig. 2 shows a longitudinal View of the crank shaft of such engine.

In the drawings the numeral 10 designates a supporting plate from which pro jects the standards 11 and 12 for the engine.

Carried by standard 12 is a cylinder 13 in which a piston 14 is reciprocated by means to be described later. A crankshaft 15 is mounted in bearings 16 of any desired form in the standards 11 and 12. The bearings here shown comprise packing 161 held in place by sleeves 162 bolted to the standards 11 and 12. Upon the crankshaft 15 between the standards is splined a flywheel 17 from which power is transmitted to any desired point.

The crankshaft 15 is bored out to provide a passageway 18 between the standards 11 and 12. The end of the shaft carried by the standard 11 is open while an opening 19 is made in that part of the shaft in the standard 12. A passage 20 is provided from the top of standard 11 to the end of the shaft and a second passage 21 is provided in the standard 12 from the shaft to the cylinder 13. As shown in Fig. 1 the passage 21 has two sections at right angles to each other, the section 22 extending from the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 17, 1920.

Serial No. 330,896.

' the standard 12 is a crankarm 27 having a crankpin 28 to which the piston rod 29 is connected in the usual manner.

A valve opening 30 in the wall of the cylinder 13 is so placed that when the piston 14 is in its low-st position the opening 30 extends from the cylinder chamber.

In the standard 11 is provided a valve 31 by which the passageway 20 is cut off when desired.

The end of the standard 11 is there added so that there can be attached to it a pipe through which air, steam, water or other fluid can be fed under pressure. The fluid flowing through the passageways 20 and 18 passes through the opening 19 of the shaft 15 which acts as an inlet valve and which is positioned by turning the crankshaft so that the fluid enters the passageway 21 and thence through the passageway 24 enters the cylinder chamber 25 and depresses the piston until it uncovers the valve 30 through which the fluid escapes.

lVhen the piston is depressed the crankshaft 15 is of course turned and the valve inlet 19 carried away from the passage 21 thus cutting off the supply of fluid to the cylinder. It will be noted that the exhaust opening 30 is controlled by the reciprocation of the piston 14 and the inlet opening 19 is controlled by the rotation of the crankshaft 15. Looking from the cylinder side the wheel is rotated in a clockwise direction.

Instead of operating the engine as described above, it is obvious that it can be used equally well as a pump, the wheel 17 being rotated by any suitable means in the opposite direction that is, according to the drawing, anticlockwise looking from the cylinder. The air or other fluid is thus drawn in through the opening 30 and expelled through the end 32 of the standard 11 ready to perform any work required.

This difference in direction of rotation according to the way in which the device is of course manifest that other embodiments may be made without departing. from the spirit and scope of my invention as set forth in the claims.

I claim,

1. In an engine, the combination of two standards, a crankshaft supported in bearings intermediately located on the standards, a flywheel mounted on said crankshaft between the standards, a cylinder carried by one of said standards above the crankshaft, passageways in said standards extending upwar lly and away from said crankshaft, a passageway in said crankshaft joining the passageways in said standards, passageways connecting the chamber of said cylinder with the passageway in the standard by which the cylinder is carried, and an independent valve opening through the walls of said cylinder.

2. In an engine, the combination of two standards, a crankshaft supported in bearings intermediatcly located on the standards, a fly wheel mounted on said shaft between the standards, a cylinder carried by one of the standards above the crankshaft, passageways in said standards extending upwardly and away from said crankshaft, a passageway in sai'derankshaft joining the passageways in said standards, passageways connecting the chamber of said cylinder with the passageway in the standard by which the cylinder is carried, whereby a complete passageway through said standards and said crankshaft to said cylinder chamber is provided and valve mechanism in said crankshaft which functions during the rotation thereof to open and close saidcomplete passageway. V V V In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

HENRY RUTTINGER. 

